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Identify Poetic Devices
In this poetic devices worksheet, students identify devices being used as alliteration, rhyme, onomatopoeia, rhyme, idiom, simile, metaphor, hyperbole or personification and explain their choice.
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The Winter’s Tale: Bio Poem
Readers of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale demonstrate their understanding of the play by selecting a character and crafting a bio poem that reveals his or her fears and aspirations.
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Identify Figurative Language
Your class can identify idioms, metaphosr, similes, hyperboles or personification by reading poetry and interpret meaning.
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Lesson Three: Poem Pieces
Students read and analyze stanzas of Civil War poem, The Flags of Michigan, to get perspective on what life was like and how Americans viewed Civil War, rewrite stanzas in modern language, and share new versions of poem with classmates.
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Conceived in Light
Students write a piece of free-verse poetry that incorporates or focuses on an idea about light. They brainstorm twenty phrases about light as a pre-writing activity.
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Let's Talk Teeth
Complete a number of activities in this group of lessons about dental health and teeth. Your elementary students will like the projects like making teeth models, reading a book, writing poetry and diagramming teeth.
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Sonnet
Students research and read other sonnets. They discuss the the history and significance of meter and rhythm in poetry. Students demonstrate the ability to write a poem using the format of a sonnet.
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Identifying Figurative Language #1
In this identifying types of figurative language instructional activity, students read sentences and phrases, determine if they are similes, metaphors, hyperboles, personifications, or a combination, identify the type/s and write an...
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Creating a Research Paper
Students orally explain First Line and Hanging Indent. Students write a paragraph describing the MLA document style. Students design a poster showing various line spacings. Students write a song or poem and perform it for their...
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Auroras
In this auroras worksheet, students define 11 terms related to space phenomena such as auroras, coronal mass ejections and auroral ovals. Students use a given website to help them define the terms and they write a 500 word essay about...
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Identifying Figurative Language
In this figurative language worksheet, students identify figurative language in the sentences and explain their answers. Students complete 10 problems.
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Triumph and Disaster
In this global studies worksheet, students read a 6-paragraph article regarding a Wimbledon match and respond to short answer questions. Vocabulary words and definitions are also included.
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Dirty Dan Isn't Dull!
Students read smoothly and expressively while noticing punctuation and using voice inflection to emphasize important words and phrases in the text. They listen to and reread a poem in small groups. Students discuss how the poem sounds...
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Become a Word Detective
Students investigate the origin of words in the English language. In this language history lesson, students examine words by breaking them down and finding their roots. Students analyze words from a poem and complete a word detective...
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Haiku: The Power of Nature and Emotion
Introduce your students to the famous Japanese Haiku with these great ideas for the classroom.
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Introduction to Keith Haring
Students experience a dance club-like environment one would find in Haring's 1980's. They dress in 80's clothes and learn break dancing moves. They relate the experience to Haring's artwork and explain his influences.
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Look Again: Revising
Fifth graders read "Jabberwocky," as an example of revision. They practice revising their own work.
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Making Connections
Students draw connections between ideas and images that normally aren't put together, and combine a wide variety of words to form new images.